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The snake detection hypothesis draws support from neuroscientific studies which suggest that primate-specific regions of the visual system involved in the fast processing of threatening images (called the pulvinar visual system) evolved in part to assist primates in detecting snakes …
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One of the weaknesses of the Visual Predation hypothesis is that when these primates do prey on insects, they typically do so using their sense of smell or hearing rather than vision; in fact, Lorisinae- which Cartmill pointed out as …
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The first set of hypotheses proposed to explain the anteriorly directed orbits and orbital convergence of primates were proposed in the early 1900’s, and have since become known collectively as making up the “Arboreal theory.” The Arboreal theory suggests that …
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